I did a dumb...

So i did a dumb... remember how i was sick last week? well after i emailed yall i went to a zone activity... outside... in the rain.... for like 2 hours... but i am better now!! which is good right? all i have is a bad nose now :)

The Zone

My District Leader Elder Endrizzi

Zone...yes, as you look at these pictures you will see a very unwell me... soaked to the bone... I can hear the lectures from here... as I said... I did a dumb.

also, we had some crazy changes happen in the mission field!! like really our 9 key indicators (goals) went down to 4 to focus  on teaching repentance and baptizing converts. it was so cool, a lot of people think oh... missionaries just want baptisms, but! all we want and all the church wants is to bring people to Christ, yes baptism is one of the 5 things known as the **gospel or doctrine of Jesus Christ, and yes, the savior is always on our lips(we legit always talk about him) and we invite people to be baptized. but we do it because we know it will help others improve their lives through following Christ!! its so cool to hear from the apostles lips what we should do as missionaries! let me explain.... no there is too much let me sum up (kudos to you if you get the reference) and i will do you one better by not even summing it up myself (aka mission president told us to share this :) ...) (look to the mission letter 29-jan-17.pdf :) its cool stuff!...)

Mission Letter 1/29/17

also we have an awesome new investigator!! who we will have to hand off to the YSA sisters or elders... elders because he is a dude. ANYWAY (sorry for the tangent) his name is chandrell he is a really cool guy with an amazing faith, the elders only met with him a few times but he wants to read the book of mormon, and as we talked about faith, sister sperry invited him to be baptized when he knows that this is true! it was so cool i was such a proud trainer!!! we get tot teach him the first lesson then we will have a handoff lesson with the YSA elders :)

and then i did another dumb, i went on a hike with my zone early this morning ( we were at the top for the sunrise and studied there) but i forgot water.. first dumb.. second dumb i relied on the light of others (aka no flashlight)

so long story short i almost died if it wasn't for elder stimle giving me his water (blessed elder) i tripped a lot, and a lot of other things. yeah dont hike in the dark without a light and dont go in arizona without water :) #whydidithinkthatwouldwork? #becauseitwasat3am #iamnotamissionarywholikesearlymornings

along with our huge changes, president also has said that they are just waiting for the first presidency to give the go ahead to  let us have i pads!! there are so many cool apps on there too!

also, so the florence ward has this ward mission leader named clancy, clancy is crazy! (he pretended to be jesus on his mission and the people who believed them started their own church) but any way his sister in law and mother in law live in my ward :) yay! all the clancy stories (he is trying out to be the book of mormon prophet in the movies/videos (i dont know which it is) the church is making) but it made me excited, hes basically arizona gilbert mission famous. and i have met him twice... he bought me gatorade because our appointment on exchanges fell through and he wanted to go shopping. in down town florence the only place to shop is really just the gas stations, so he bought my companion and i sports drinks :)

so yeah its been a fun crazy week!  do me a favor and dont do as i am doing and dont injure yourselves this week, which means no accidentally cutting your fingers on a razor in your bag, no fighting gigantic evil robots with your ice powers, supersuits, and super powered buddies (even if it is for the greater good), no tripping on thin air, no tripping and falling on sharp arizona gravel, dont eat the yellow snow, dont go bat crazy and decide to avenge your parents by using your oodles of money to become a superhero and fight the crazy amount of crime and corruption in your home city,  just dont do dumb things. unlike me, who did many a dumb thing (guess which one is mine?... yup you are right its the ice powers one.... i did a dumb)

well, i just want to let you know i love you all quite a bit :) yall are great :)

Love

Sister (hermana, sestra, whatever you want to call it ) Cordon :)

*** doctrine and gospel of Jesus Christ 1. Faith in Jesus Christ 2. repenting of our sins 3. baptism by the proper authority to be washed clean of all sins 4. having the holy ghost with us at all times (receiving the gift of the holy ghost) 5. Enduring to the end (ya gotta finish the distance!)

thats all folks!!